Re: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?

From: Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx>

To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:11:41 -0400

Not that this thread has any particular direction at this point ... so
I hope that you don't mind if I direct your attention to a point of
interest along the road.
I noticed that a serial number for a VMware vSphere 4 license included
a restriction of "Max 6 cores per processor".
Does anyone know if that includes hyperthreading or simply excludes
the latest 8 core Intel Xeon Nehalems and the coming AMD Magny Cours?
Oh wait, that would be asking a VMware question in an Oracle mail
list. Please ignore.
I had a bad feeling when seeing that restriction in text, that it
would soon appear elsewhere in other products.
(cue the pipe organ music)
Paul
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stephens, Chris
<Chris.Stephens@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I’m curious how licensing works with VMotion. Do you have to license oracle
> for the all hosts in the environment, including the host(s) that aren’t
> being used until failover?
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> When I asked our Oracle rep about this his response was that we absolutely
> had to.
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> He has been wrong on occasion.
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> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Allen, Brandon
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 5:02 PM
> To: William Muriithi; 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?
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> We implemented on a VMWare cluster mainly for high availability and
> flexibility. We can quickly move a virtual DB host from one physical to
> another without any downtime or loss of active sessions via VMotion. We
> have the flexibility to run other virtuals on the same host as the DB if we
> want/need to in the future, but for now, we have plenty of hardware to
> accommodate everything so we give the DB servers their own machines and
> consolidate our Windows and App servers on other machines.
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> From: William Muriithi [mailto:william.muriithi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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> Curious, what was the incentive of using vmware considering your are running
> just one instance?
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